Business Analyst

Introduction

At IBM, we know that transformation drives change, and it is in our DNA to continuously transform. Our Business Transformation Consultants help drive large scale change that spans IBM business units and geographies. As a part of this team, you will have the unique opportunity to be a part of driving IBM’s ongoing transformation as a company that continuously innovates and leads the market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The Business Analyst is responsible for ideating, scoping, and building cognitive solutions:

• Explore cognitive use cases;
• Analyze existing processes and the business context;
• Analyze and articulate user needs;
• Analyze impacts (organizational impacts, benefits cases, etc.);
• Analyze the training data sets for cognitive solutions;
• Participate in the development of specifications and timelines for building cognitive solutions;
• Lead workshops with business stakeholders;
• Ensure and apply methodologies for implementing cognitive solutions;
• Participate in the construction of cognitive solutions;
• Facilitate communication between business teams and technical experts.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Participate in the scoping, development of specifications, and planning for new Artificial Intelligence projects within the group’s entities.
• Write clear and precise specifications by describing the technical, functional, and operational requirements of the project.
• Participate in the implementation of new methodologies.
• Identify constraints and requirements, including deadlines, budgets, and necessary resources.
• Build cognitive solutions in collaboration with business teams by organizing workshops. You will be responsible for communicating the Cognitive Factory’s methodologies and processes to the entities, using Agile practices.
• Work closely with technical teams, including developers, AI engineers, and designers, to ensure that the specifications are feasible and understandable.
• Lead and conduct the gap analysis between the specifications and product requirements, identifying with product teams the elements that could be part of their roadmap.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Involvement in Agile ceremonies
• Strong interest in technology
• Rigor, organization, teamwork, creativity, intellectual curiosity
• Strong interpersonal skills and leadership
• Excellent writing skills
• Training in Artificial Intelligence technologies (Knowledge of AI challenges, particularly Generative AI, with a specialization in Natural Language Processing (NLP))
• High-level knowledge of infrastructure and architecture, particularly in cloud environments

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